Paul-Bernard de Fontaines

Paul-Bernard de Fontaines (1566-19 May 1643) was a Spanish general during the Thirty Years' War. He was killed at the Battle of Rocroi in 1643.

Biography
Paul-Bernard de Fontaines was born in the Spanish Netherlands, and he joined the Spanish Army in 1596 and became a military commander in Flanders in 1611. In 1621, he built fortresses from Knokke to Lapscheure, and, in 1631, he broke the siege of Bruges. In 1638, the chronically-ill Fontaines was named Maestre de campo (commander of the infantry), and, during the 1643 Battle of Rocroi, he commanded his tercios from a sedan chair before being killed in battle.